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The EU's Renewable Energy Policies Driving the Logging ...
The EU's Renewable Energy Policies Driving the Logging ... - EIA.org
More than one third of EU renewable energy targets are met by burning wood, even though burning wood releases more carbon emissions per unit energy produced ...
The EU's Renewable Energy Policies Driving the Logging and ...
The EU's Renewable Energy Policies Driving the Logging and Burning of Europe's Protected Forests. Author: Environmental Investigation Agency. Date: 2022.
Bioenergy Harms European Forests and Undermines EU ... - NRDC
A carbon accounting error in the EU Renewable Energy Directive—which counts emissions from burning forest biomass as zero in the energy ...
Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy
Although logging is not forbidden in Europe's protected forests, governments are required to conduct environmental assessments to ensure the ...
US NGOs raise the alarm about flawed EU renewable energy policy
The EU renewable energy policy is driving deforestation and forest degradation in the US, according to several US NGOs who visited European capitals in ...
Forest protection in the EU's renewable energy directive and nature ...
To date, the only policy improvement compared to RED II is the ban on biomass use from primary forests, peatlands and wetlands. However, this ban also requires ...
Burning forests for energy isn't 'renewable' – now the EU must admit it
If we continuously log forests, there will always be more carbon in the atmosphere than if the forest had remained unlogged. Due to incentivised ...
What's Driving Europe's Forest Loss? - World Resources Institute
2) Using Wood for Energy Is Impacting the EU's Forests. ... Around half of the wood produced in the EU is used for energy, and many countries have ...
EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores ...
Despite growing public opposition, the European Parliament voted this week not to declassify woody biomass as renewable energy.
Ending burning forest wood for “renewable energy”
EU climate policy has a fatal flaw ... The European Union wants to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, ...
Regulation on Deforestation-free products - European Commission
EU rules to guarantee that the products EU citizens consume do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation worldwide. Overview. By ...
The EU's Renewable Energy Policies Driving the Logging and Burning of Europe's Protected Forests ... Update: Read more media coverage of this report and EIA's ...
EU woody biomass final policy continues threatening forests and ...
One revision to REDIII calls for EU renewable energy to increase from 30% to 42.5% of total energy production by 2030 with all member states ...
The EU must protect forests, not burn them for energy.
Yet, EU leaders are undermining our shared efforts to fight for our forests and the planet. How? EU policy is increasing forest logging and associated ...
The EU must stop burning trees for renewable energy - POLITICO.eu
But still, official EU policy assigns biomass a value of “zero” emissions, just like wind and solar. Adding to the harm, logging forests for ...
The scientific case against burning forest biomass for energy
Bioenergy in the EU's energy mix · The Renewable Energy Directive (REDIII) · Why do scientists oppose most bioenergy burning? · Is burning wood for ...
Logging forests for energy appears to be an important driver of land carbon sink loss. Scientists have repeatedly warned that burning forest ...
EU renewables rules destroying Estonia's forests - Greenpeace
Brussels – EU rules and national subsidy schemes that encourage the use of wood pellets to meet renewable energy targets are driving the ...
Europe Rethinks Its Reliance on Burning Wood for Electricity
A controversial European Union policy called the Renewable Energy Directive drove this transition by counting biomass — organic material ...
Impacts of the European renewable energy policy on forest resource ...
The current version of RED in force, RED II, also introduced an expanded scope of the EU sustainability criteria for bioenergy, specifically biomass and biogas ...